The good news is that the album was just released by Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Damon Albern of Gorillas, The Crush, Tori Amos, Hans Zimmer, Pet Shop Boys, Jamiloquay, Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens, Billy Ocean, and Billy Ocean). Many other musicians Plus, most of them are British. The bad news is that it doesn’t contain any real music. But the album of the title Is this what we want? , It was created in the hope of preventing even worse news. The UK government has chosen to have artificial intelligence companies train their models in copyrighted work without a license.
Such a move, in the words of the project leader Ed Newton Rex, “will give the life work of the country’s musicians to AI companies for free, so that those companies will misuse the work of musicians to beat them.” As a composer, he naturally has an interest in these issues, and as a “former AI executive,” he probably has an insider’s knowledge about them.
“The government’s willingness to agree to these copyright changes shows how much our work is undervalued and that it does not protect any of the country’s most important assets: music.” Kate Bush writes on his website. “Each track on this album has an abandoned recording studio. Wouldn’t that silence say it all?”
As GuardianDan Mirmo’s report“It is understood that Kate Bush recorded one of 12 tracks in her studio.” The track, titled to the phrase “The UK government should not legalize music theft to benefit AI companies,” is not strictly silent. In a way that might please John Cage, they embrace the various surrounding sounds, from humming machines to passing through cars, to crying, to vague sounds of music coming from somewhere in the distance. Even if it influences the UK government’s deliberations, Is this what we want? (title The sound of silence (possibly unavailable) may have pioneered a new genre: song of protest without a song.
Can be streamed Is this what we want? Spotify.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
